30/12/2010

When this aired I was on a train travelling to Winnipeg, recording clips for next week's show.

* = Canadian

1. Treelines* - Summersong (Young Man EP)
2. Bad Fate* - Brain Enthusiast (Olympic City)
3. Iggy Pop - Some Weird Sin (Lust For life)
4. The Radio Dept. - 1995 (Lesser Matters)
5. Volcano Choir - Island, IS (Unmap)
6. Wavves - Take on the World (King of the Beach)
7. The Besnard Lakes* - Albatross (The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night)
8. Menomena - Taos (Mines)
9. No Age* - Fever Dreaming (Everything In Between)
10. Frederick Squire* - It Is In the Water (March 12)
11. Sam Amidon - How Come That Blood (I See the Sign)
12. The National - Anyone's Ghost (High Violet)

HOMEWORK: save the resolutions for the spring (or, better yet, never) and have some fun on the 31st.

So many requests.

Co-host Vicky Loessin on this one, mostly requests.

* = Canadian

1. Foggy Notions* - Valentine (demo)
2. Male Bonding - Crooked Scene (Nothing Hurts)
3. Olenka & the Autumn Lovers* - Odessa (And Now We Sing)
4. Del Barber* - Home to Manitoba (Love Songs For the Last 20)
5. Zachary Lucky* - O' Ontario (Come & Gone)
6. Shooting Guns* - The Last Land (Holy Mount/Shooting Guns)
7. The Town Pants* - Trains Not Taken (Shore Leaves)
8. The Balconies* - Lulu (The Balconies)
9. Menomena - Dirty Cartoons (Mines)
10. Woodhands* - I Wasn't Made For Fighting (Heart Attack)
11. Devo - Girl U Want (Freedom of Choice)
12. Dan Mangan - Sold (Nice, Nice, Very nice)
    

December 9th, 2010

1. Small Sins - Why Won't You Believe Me?
2. REM - Catapult (Murmur)
3. The Winks - Water Park (Twilights)
4. Austra - Beat and the Pulse (Beat and the Pulse)
5. PS I Love You - 2012 (Meet Me At the Muster Station)
6. Spirits - When the Sun Gets In My Eys (Spirits)
7. The Moas - Of Mice (live demo)
8. The Dudes - Terrified (Blood. Guts. Briuses. Cuts.)
9. Olenka & the autumn Lovers - Clean (And Now We Sing)
10. Shotgun and Jaybird - Hindsight (There Are Days and There Are Days)

Wikileaks? More like WikiThanksForTellingUsTheTruth

Post titles are getting progressively worse.

* = Canadian

1. Kathryn Calder* - Castor & Pollux (Are You My Mother)
2. Maritime - For Science Fiction (Heresy & the Hotel Choir
3. Port O'Brien - Don't Take My Advice (All I Could Do Was Sing)
4. The Asexuals* - So Alone (Be What You Want)
5. The Thermals - Our Trip (Fuckin' A)
6. Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs Bad Arms (The Midnight Organ Fight)
7. The Hold Steady - Barfruit Blues (Almost Killed Me)
8. Broken Social Scene* - Anthems For a Seventeen Year Old Girl (You Forgot it in People)
9. Siskiyou* - It's All Going to End (Siskiyou)
10. Winter Gloves* - Jump (All Red)
11. Hot Panda* - It's Worth 8 Dollars (Volcano, Bloody Volcano)
12. Huey Lewis & the News - Respect Yourself (Soulsville)
13. The Russian Futurists* - Register My Firearms? No Way! (The Weight's on the Wheels)
14. Wavves - Loser Year (Wavves)

The shoegaze-y post-rock-y show

Snow day! Time for a shoegaze glaze.

* = Canadian

1. Valleys*- Killer Legs (Sometimes Water Kills People)
2. Cocteau Twins - Iceblind Luck (Heaven or Las Vegas)
3. Pearson* - King of the Deep Night (Clear Thinking on Mixed Feelings)
4. Yo La Tengo - Gentle Hours (Dark Was the Night)
5. Hollowphonic* - Sad to Feel (Hollowphonic)
6. Spirit Family Reunion - Alright Prayer (Spirit Family Reunion)
7. Caves* - No Birds in the Sky - Caves
8. Beach House - Norway (Teen Dream)
9. RedSayNo* - Open Spaces Nothing Holy! (RedSayNo)
10. Young Galaxy* - Outside the City (Young Galaxy)
11. Mean Red Spiders* - Secret (Stars and Suns)
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Malls Well that Ends Well

I just quit my mall job, so I thought I would celebrate these iconic urban spaces with a themed show. Cynicism about rampant consumerism, cultural references (Mallrats! Dawn of the Dead!), complaints about mall food, and hilarious mall facts included free of charge.

1. Old Man Luedecke* - I Quit My Job (Hinterland)
2. Collapsing Opposites* - Working, Shopping, Working, Shopping (In Time)
   
3. The Constantines* - Credit River (Kensington Heights)
4. Against Me - Pretty Girls (Searching For a Former Clarity)
5. The Pinecones* - Four More Days (Til I Open My Music Shoppe)
6. Daniel Ramano* - Workin' For the Music Man (Workin' For the Music Man)
7. Cuff the Duke* - Take My Money and Run (Cuff the Duke)
8. You Say Party!* - Lonely Lunch
   
9. Maybe Smith* - Dinner is Served (Second Best Death)
10. Modest Mouse - King Rat
11. B.A. Johnston* - You Will Miss Me When the Zombies Come (Stairway to Hamilton)

Double Bill and a Half! Two and a Half Hours!

How incredibly exciting.


When Insects Take to the High Seas and Steal Treasure


(I covered Pirate Radio)

(Adam Ant dressed as a pirate)

* = Canadian

1. Dan Mangan* - Sold (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
2. Northcote* - Energy (Borrowed Chords, Tired Eyes)
3. The Hold Steady - Hurricane J (Heaven is Whenever)
4. In media Res* - Shakeher (Of What Was)
   
5. Guided By Voices - Skills Like This (Isolation Drills)
6. Male Bonding - Nothing Remains (Nothing Hurts)
7. No Age - Glitter (Everything In Between)
8. DEVO - The Super Thing (New Traditionalists)
9. Deerhoof - Wrong Time Capsule (Runners Four)
10. Shapes and Sizes* - Sing Them Songs (Candle to Your Eyes)
11. Small Sins* - Drunk E-Mail (Mood Swings)
12. Born Ruffians* - The Ballad of Moose Bruce (Say It)
13. The Provincial Anthem* - Sore Eyes (Maybe We Could Be Holy)
14. Sarah Slean* - Sweet Ones (Night Bugs)
15. Daniel Romano* - Poor Girls of Ontario (Workin' for the Music Man)
16. Cameron Scott Fraser* - We Could Have It All (Promised Land)
17. The Rolling Stones - Get Off My Cloud (Got LIVE If You Want It!)
18. Mohawk Lodge* - Cold Hearts (Crimes)

1. Timber Timbre* - Demon Host (Timber Timbre)
2. The Von Bondies - Only to Haunt You (Love, Hate, and The There's You)
3. Falklands* - Hell Is Up (Think About It)
4. The Decemberists - Shankill Butchers (The Crane Wife)
5. Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming (Bone Machines)
6. Ladyhawk* - Fear (Shots)
7. The Smiths - How Soon is Now (Hatful of Hollow)
8. Man Man - Feathers (Six Demon bag)
9. SSRIs* - Certain Set Configuration (Effeminate Godzilla-Sized Windchimes)
10. Ghostkeeper* - Haunted (Ghostkeeper)
11. Jonathan Coulton - re: Your Brains (Thing a Week)
12. B.A. Johnston - You Will Miss Me When the Zombies Come (Stairway to Hamilton)
13. Collapsing Opposites - Time = Zero
    

Double Bill, Two Hours!

50 Cent's twitter feed is hilarious.

* = Canadian

1. The Gaslight Anthem - Stay Lucky (American Slang)
2. Ride Til Dawn* - Hard Logic (Hearts of Worlds Forgotten)
3. Male Bonding - Weird Feelings (Nothing Hurts)
4. Rah Rah* - Ghosts (Breaking hearts)
5. Shotgun Jimmie* - Onomatopoeia (The Onlys)
6. Mates of State - Fraud in the 80s (Bring it Back)
7. Dan Mangan* - The Indie Queens Are Waiting (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
8. Kathryn Calder* - Castor and Pollux (Are You My Mother?)
9. Corb Lund* - It's Hard to Keep a White Shirt Clean (Losin' Lately Gambler)
10. B.A. Johnston* - Love = NBA Jam (Thank You For being a friend)
11. Local Rabbits* - Never Had to Fight (This is it Here We Go)
12. Jets to Brazil - Morning New Disease (Orange Rhyming Dictionary)

When Ants Crawl Inside of Leonard Cohen's Brain and Control Him From the Inside in a Plot to Dominate the World from Within the Systems of Man

(I covered Faster Leonard Cohen Die! Die! for Jay)

1. Sunset Rubdown* - They Took a Vote and Said No (Shut Up I Am Dreaming)
2. Gobble Gobble* - Mountains of Flesh (Neon Graveyard)
3. We Are the City*- There Are Very Tiny Beasts In the Ground
4. Wintersleep* - Home (Wintersleep)
5. The Acorn* - Strange Animal (Gowan cover)
6. Woodhands* - In the Woods (Heart Attack)
7. Slates* - Dirty Water (Slates)
8. Sisters - Sky (Ghost Fits)
9. The Asexuals* - Take a Look Around You (Be What You Want)
10. Owen Pallet* - Scandal in the Parkade (Swedish Love Story EP)
11. Neil Young* - Sign of Love (Le Noise)

FM-Phasis Deux

This happened during FM-Phasis.

1. Wintersleep* - Sore (Wintersleep)
2. The National - Abel (Alligator)
3. The Vaselines - Such a Fool (Sex With an X)
4. Hey Rosetta!* - Handshake the Gangster (Into Your Lungs)
5. Hot Panda* - Pools (How Come I'm Dead?)
6. B.A. Johnston* - I Am Doing Better In A Parallel Universe (Thank You For Being a Friend)
7. Japandroids* - Rockers East Vancouver
8. Ladyhawk - STHD
9. Holy Fuck - Casio Bossa Nova
10. Winter Gloves - Strange Love
11. Pack AD - BC Is On Fire
12. The Kinks - Come On Now (Kinda Kinks)
    

Man vs Machine - September 16th, 2010

Like a science fiction movie, but on the radio.

One playlist was created by my new ipod's genius playlist creation program and the other by me. Which one is better?

SET 1

• Immaculate Machine* - Broken Ship (Ones and Zeroes)
• Cuff the Duke* - Take My Money and Run (Cuff the Duke)
• You Say Party!* - Downtown Mayor Goodnight, Alley Kids Rule! (Lose All Time)
• Joel Plaskett* - Snowed In / Cruisin' (Ashtray Rock)
• Ohbijou* - St. Francis (Swift Feet For Troubling Times)
• The Bicycles* - B-b-bicycles (The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly)

SET 2

• GOBBLE GOBBLE* - Meteor Aschat (Neon Graveyard)
• Winter Gloves* - Tooth Fairy (All Red)
• Maybe Smith* - A Walrus With a Gunswordaxe vs The Big Bang Machine (Another Murder in the Morning)
• Woodhands* - Be Back Soon (Heart Attack)
• The Asexuals* - Be What You Want
  
• Turbo Fruits - Naked With You
• The Kinks - Situation Vacant (Something Else by the Kinks)
  

HOMEWORK: make some playlists by hand, share with friends

3 song set challenges! With Vicky Loessin

Vicky and I gave each other mini challenges for the entire show.

* = Canadian

1. Songs the ghostbusters listened to while ghost busting (Dana)
- Wolf Parade* - Ghost Pressure (Expo 86)
- Winter Gloves* - We Need New Transportation (All Red)
- Devo - What We Do (Something For Everyone)

2. Songs You Would Not Want To Have Sex To (Vicky)
- B.A. Johnston* - How Many T-Bone Steaks Could I Fit In My Pants? (Stairway to Hamilton)
- Mountain Goats - No Children (Tallahassee)
- Frightened Rabbit - Keep Yourself Warm (The Midnight Organ Flight)

3. Theme Songs For A Walk Of Shame (Dana)
- Broken Social Scene* - I Slept With Bonhomme At the CBC (Feel Good Lost)
- Aidan Knight* - Fighting Against Your Lungs (Versicolour)
- Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring (Romance is Boring)

4. Songs to Explain the Earth to an Alien (Vicky)
- Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Areoplane Over the Sea (In The Areoplane Over the Sea)
- Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains* - American Names (Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains)
- Library Voices* - Step off the Map and Float (Hunting Ghosts (and Other Collected Shorts))

Solutions to the BP Oil Crisis - June 17th, 2010

* = Canadian

1. The Sadies* - Cut Corners (Darker Circles)
2. Carbon Dating Service* - Oil Sands (Reliquiae)
3. Adam & the Amethysts* - Stupid Ocean (Amethyst Amulet)
4. Dan Mangan* - Robots (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
5. Bruce Peninsula* - Steamroller (A Mountain is a Mouth)
6. Wintersleep* - Laser Beams (Welcome to the Night Sky)
7. Wax Mannequin* - Volcano God (And Black Blood)
8. Think About Life* - Wizzard (Family)
9. Azeda Booth* - Lobster Quadrille (In Flesh Tones)
10. Deer Tick - Choir of Angels (The Black Dirt Sessions)
11. The Wrens - Ex-Girl Collection (The Meadowlands)
12. Sleepless Nights* - Allyson Got Robbed (Turn Into Vapour)
13. Mumford & Sons - Thistle & Weeds (Sigh No More)

Special Guest Host: Jenn Freeze! - June 10, 2010

Yes, the very same Jenn Freeze from Thrice Removed. This came soooo close to being a space themed show, but then Jenn bailed on that. I have us covered, but space is a fun one. I should do it again another time.

* = Canadian

1. Woodpigeon - In The Battle of Sun Vs. Curtains, Sun Loses and We Sleep Until Noon (Treasury Library Canada)
2. Rebekah Higgs* - Mr. Weatherman (Rebekah Higgs)
3. Rah Rah* - Henry (Breaking Hearts)
4. By Divine Right* - All Over It! (Sweet Confusion)
5. Wilco - Hate It Here (Sky Blue Sky)
6. T. Rex - Planet Queen (Electric Warrior)
7. Dan Anerbach - My last Mistake (Keep It Hid)
8. The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down (The White Stripes)
9. Joel Plaskett Emergency* - Cry Together (Down At The Khyber)
10. Meligrove Band* - Halflight (Shivering Lights)
11. Shapes & Sizes* - Tell Your Mum (Candle to Your Eyes)
12. Josh Ritter - The Curse (So Runs the World Away)
13. Ugly Casanova - Lay Me Down (The 180 South Soundtrack)
14. Sports: The Band* - Cast Lots (Sports: The Band)

Punk Rock and cheesy 80s covers - July 15th, 2010

Two weeks week after the very fun Sled Island music festival in Calgary. I wrote an article about it for the Concordian.

Personal highlights:

• meeting InMediaRes after getting drunk and deciding to ditch Dinosaur Jr. to find their show. I used to listen to them when I was in high school in Melfort. I was posting on a forum ran by a guy out of Vancouver who was friends with them. I warmed to them immediately because they sort of sound like David Bazan if he was in a rock band. Their guitarist was intensely awesome.
• Nardwar pinata at the Paper Bag Records party
• seeing other bands that I've liked for years and years and years, Hot Water Music and The Thermals.

Playlist:

* = Canadian

1. In Media Res* - Radio Friendly (Of What Was)
2. Minus the Bear - Thanks For the Killer Game of Crisco (Highly Refined Pirates)
3. Paper Tiger - Medi's Asleep (Get It Right)
4. The Fjords* - Get It Right (Get It Right)
5. The Lawrence Arms - Drunk Mouth Kitchen Smile
6. Sleater-Kinney - Heart Factory (Dig Me Out)
7. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Eye of the Tiger (Drain the Blood 7")
8. Arcade Fire* Brazil (Cold Wind 7")
9. Duvall - True (Racine 7")
10. The Pack A.D.* - Everyone Looks Like Everyone (We Kill Computers)
11. Tessa Kautzman* - Back to the Yukon (Always Going Home)
12. The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing

More nostalgia - July 8th, 2010

Some more tunes from my youth mixed in with new ones.

* = Canadian

1. Dakota/Dakota - Don't Pee In My Bed and Tell Me It's Raining (Shoot in the Dark)
2. The Firebird Band -Beautiful (Setting Sun & It's Satellites)
3. Feral Children* - Illustrate (Currents)
4. Owls - Everyone is My Friend (Owls)
5. Fred Eaglesmith* - Dynamite & Whiskey (Cha Cha Cha)
6. The City Streets* - Irish Rose (The Jazz Age)
7. The Thermals - How We Know (Fuckin' A)
8. The Burning Hell* - Northern Life (This Charmed Life)
9. Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit (Winners Never Quit)
10. Bob Dylan - Slow Train (Slow Train)
11. The Guess Who* - It's My Pride (The Guess Who)
12. Raised By Swans* - Easier (No Ghostless Place)
13. Crystal Castles* - Year of Silence (Crystal Castles)

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1. Pearson* - Cold Comfort (Clear Thinking on Mixed Feelings)
2. Sleepy Sun - Wild Creatures (Fever)
3. Mini Mansions - Pacers (Mini Mansions)
4. The Pinecones* - Act A Gentlemen (Sage)
5. Young Galaxy* - Queen Drum (Invisible Republic)
   
6. Collapsing Opposites* - You Can Escape From Time (In Time)
7. Daniel Johnston - Happy Time (Happy Time 7")
8. Dumb Angel* - I Woke Up This Morning (I Woke Up This Morning)
9. The Robots* - Drunk Uncle (Hey Buddy, Dummy)
   
10. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place (Hometowns)

Musicians with no concept of an ipod.

All of these songs were written before the ipod was a thing.

1. Broken Social Scene* - I Slept With Bonhomme at the CBC (Feel Good Lost)
2. The American Analog Set - The Kindness of Strangers (Know by Heart)
3. Modest Mouse - It Always Rains on a Picnic (Sad Sappy Sucker)
4. Television - See No Evil (Marquee Moon)
5. Fugazi - Full Disclosure (The Argument)
6. Propagandhi* - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes (Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes)
7. The Weakerthans* - Pamphlateer ( Left & Leaving)
8. Greg Macpherson* - West St. James (Balanced on a Pin)
9. Snailhouse* - Daylight (The Opposite is Also True)
10. The Inbreds* - Is It The Right Time? (Winning Hearts)
11. Local Rabbits* - When You Return (Basic Concept)
12. Jets to Brazil - Sea Anemone (Orange Rhyming Dictionary)
13. The Smoking Popes - My Lucky Day (Born to Quit)
    

The Yarnocalypse (June 3rd)

This week I was responding to a challenge laid out by Jay in the show description he wrote for my show for cfcr's new website. He claims I do shows about things ranging from "bands that start with T to songs about yarn", which is a lie, since I haven't done either of those. The only course of action was, of course, to attempt to do a show about yarn.

(I abandoned the theme about 8 songs in...)

* = Canadian

1. Aiden Knight* - Knitting Something Nice (Versicolour)
2. Weezer - Undone - The Sweater Song (Blue Album)
3. There Will Be Fireworks - We Sleep Through the Night (There Will Be Fireworks)
4. Sophie Madeliene - The Knitting Song (Love, Life, Ukulele)
5. The Morning Benders - Stitch (Big Echo)
6. Bjork - Unravel (Homogenic)
7. Broken Social Scene* - Texico Bitches (Forgiveness Rock Record)
8. The Frenetics* - Shortest String (Scenery EP)
9. Wintersleep* - Terrible Man (New Inheritors)
10. WOMEN* - Sag Harbor Bridge (WOMEN)
11. Boats!* - Haircuts For Everybody ("Cannonball, Cannonball")
12. Born Ruffians* - Nova-Leigh (Say It)
13. The Karpinka Brothers - Let Them Guess (One Brick at a Time)
14. Pearson* - On Second Thought, Our Collected Alcohol Consumption Was A Tad Ambitious

The Sound of Settling (Catan) (May 27th)

Today's theme was the Settlers of Catan, a game that I've been playing more of lately. It's been growing on me now that I know how to play the Cities & Knights expansion.

* = Canadian

1. Death cab For Cutie - The Sound of Settling (Transantlanticism)
2. Kevin Drew* - Saftey Bricks (Spirit If)
3. The Sheepdogs* - I Don't Know (Learn & Burn)
4. The Deep Dark Woods* - Mountain (The Deep Dark Woods)
5. The Wheatpool* - The Geographic Centre of Canada (Township)
6. The Karpinka Brothers* - One Brick at a Time (One Brick at a Time)
7. Spiral Beach* - Made of Stone (Ball)
8. Dan Mangan* - Road Regrets (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
9. Chad Vangaalen* - City of Electric Light (Soft Airplane)
10. We Are the City* - There Are Very Tiny Beasts in the Ground (In A Quiet World)
11. Aidan Knight* - North East South West (Versicolour)
12. Sloan* - Sinking Ships (Navy Blues)
13. Immaculate Machine* - Army (Ones and Zeroes)

HOMEWORK: play some German board games.

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Rain, Rain, Eff You

1. Black Mountain* - Stormy High (In the Future)
2. The Golden Dogs* - Driving in the Rain (Everything in Three Parts)
3. Minus the Bear - Spritz! Spritz!
4. Sexy Mathematics - Who Knows (Integration EP)
5. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (Heretic Pride)
6. Rick White* - Rain (Part 3) (1-3-7)
7. The Fugitives* - City of Rain (Eccentrically We Love)
8. Sun Kil Moon - Neverending Math Equation
9. Patrick Watson* - Drifters
10. Sam Amidon - Way Go Lily
11. Olenka and the Autumn Lovers* - 45 (Papillonette)
12. Wolf Parade* - Palm Road (Expo 86)
13. Wintersleep* - Archaeologists (Welcome to the Night Sky)

HOMEWORK: Go read the explanation for why the new Wolf Parade album is called Expo 86 and track down a copy of the new Wintersleep.

Nostalgia (May 6th)

I found my old 200 cd binder full of burnt cds (and some purchased ones that I'd long given up for lost) in my basement while cleaning. The first part of the show was random pulls from that.

1. The Anniversary - The "D" in Detroit (Designing a Nervous Breakdown)


2. The Get Up Kids - Stay Gold, Ponyboy (Four Minute Mile)


3. Braid - A Dozen Roses (Frame & Canvas)


4. Mike Park - From Korea (For the Love of Music)


5. The Lawrence Arms - Navigating the Windward Passage (Apathy & Exhaustion)


6. Colossal - The Serious Kind (Welcome the Problems)


7. Fall Horsie* - The Devil's Performance (Devil (e) Dirge)


8. Whale Tooth* - Sleepwalking (Whale Tooth)


9. Daniel, Fred, and Julie* - The Runner (Daniel, Fred, and Julie)


10. Rick White* - Back Home (137)


11. Yukon Blonde* - Rather Be With You (Yukon Blonde)


12. Fish & Bird* - Lydia (Left Brain Blues)


13. Jim Guthrie* - You Are Far (Do You Exist?) (Now More Than Ever)

HOMEWORK: Go find some of your old cds from years past and give them a listen. Revel.

Earth Day - Playlist for April 22nd, 2010

Earth day! Special guest host Rich Taylor helped out.

1. Crystal Castles* - Celestica (Crystal Castles)
2. Joy Division - Interzone (Unkown Pleasure)
3. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
4. Land of Talk* - Magnetic Hill (Applause Cheer boo Hiss)
5. Shotgun Jimmie* - One Trick Pony (Paint it Pink EP)
6. B.A. Johnston - My Heart is a Blinking Nintendo (My Heart is a Blinking Nintendo)
7. Pulp - Common People
8. Sloan* - Deeper Than Beauty (Twice Removed)
9. The Polymaths* - Strike (So Long, Castle Road)
10. Neil Young* - After the Goldrush (After the Goldrush)
    
11. Richard Hell & the Void - Blank Generation (Blank Generation)
12. Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus (Mule Variations)
13. Gillian Snider* - Take me Homw (In The Rough) Tom Waits cover

HOMEWORK:

Vivefest! - Playlist for April 15th, 2010

I am ultra-excited for Vivefest on Saturday. The pre-Vivefest dance party happened right after this show (with Sexy Mathematics, Spirits, and the Balconies) and was a lot of fun.

1. Maybe Smith* - Hearts Like Bears (Animals & Architects)
2. Immaculate Machine* - Phone Number (Ones and Zeroes)
3. The New Pornographers* - Mass Romantic (Mass Romantic)
4. Carbon Dating Service* - No Beards Reprise (This Circuitry is New to Me)
5. Pearson* - Cold Comfort (Clear Thinking On Mixed Feelings)
6. The Dears* Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe? (No Cities Left)
7. Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus Forever (The Monitor)
8. The Morning Benders - Cold War (Big Echo)
9. Yeasayer - I Remember (Odd Blood)
10. Spirits* - Open the Door (Spirits)
11. The Books - Venice (Lost & Safe)
12. Old Man Luedecke* I Quit My Job (Hinterland)
13. The Inbreds* - Is It The Right Time? (Winning Hearts)
14. The Balconies* - Ghost Fever (The Balconies)

Happy birthday to me. - Playlist for April 8th, 2010

* = Canadian

1. Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings (Romance is Boring)
2. Jonsi - Go Do (Go)
3. Copy Haho - You Are My Coal Mine (Wrong Direction)
4. Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You (Winter of Mixed Drinks)
5. Japandroids* - Art Czars (Art Czars)
6. WOMEN* - Group Transport Hall (WOMEN)
7. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
   
8. The Gruff* - Holes In My Jeans (A Trail of Missing Thoughts)
9. Old Man Luedecke* - My Love Comes Stepping Up The Stairs (My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs)
10. The Wooden Sky* - When We Were Young (If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone)
11. Ride Til Dawn* - Hard Logic (Hearts of World's Forgotten)
12. The Fjords* - All I'm Asking (Get It Right)
13. We Are The City* - Astronomers (In a Quiet World)
    

Beer night - Playlist for April 1st, 2010

Show!

This followed the CFCR beer night. I dragged Vicky along to be my secretary.

* = Canadian.

1. The Thermals - Our Trip (Fuckin A)
2. The Fjords* - Get It Right (Get It Right)
3. Eamon Mcgrath* -Wild Dogs (Wild Dogs)
4. Hot Water Music - Trusty Chords (Caution)
5. Japandroids* - Heart Sweats (Post-Nothing)
6. Japanther - Spread So Thin (Skuffed Up My Huffy)
7. The Parkas* - Les Fleurs Du Mal (You Should Have Killed Us When You Had The Chance)
8. The Unicorns* - Tuff Ghost (Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?)
9. Deerhunter - Agoraphobia (Microcastle)
10. The Decemberists - Engine Driver (Picaresque)
11. Olenka and the Autumn Lovers* - Papillon (Papillonette)
12. The New Pornographers* - Mass Romantic (Mass Romantic)
13. The Clash - White Riot (The Clash)
14. Death from Above 1979* - Black History Month (You're a Woman, I'm a Machine)
    

Bicycles!

My bike and I at the Atlantic Ocean in Halifax. I took it on the train with me there and back from Saskatoon.

I recently got this same bike tuned up and started riding it, since the weather has gotten nice again. The first ride had me feeling ultra giddy and I decided to finally do a bicycle themed show. This episode included some bicycle stories told by various friends.

* denotes Canadian

1. Kraftwerk - Tour de France (Tour de France Soundtrack)
2. Coco Love Alcorn* - I Got A Bike (Joyful)
3. The Inbreds* - Derailleur (Hilario)
4. Bell Orchestre* - Icicles/Bicycles (As Seen Through Windows)
5. Kimya Dawson - My Bike (Knock Knock Who?)
6. A Gentle Forest* - Broken Bicycle (Our Phenomenal First Flight)
7. Aidan Knight* - The Sun (Versicolour)
8. Mum - Slow Bicycle (Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Was Okay)
9. The Bicycles* - B-B-Bicycles (The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly)
10. Abdominal* - Pedal Pusher (Escape From The Pidgeonhole)
11. Oh No! Oh My! - I Have No Sister (Oh No! Oh My!)
12. This Bike is a Pipe Bomb - Murder Bike (Dance Party)
13. Bruce Cockburn* - The Bicycle Trip (Bruce Cockburn)
14. Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling (Peel Sessions)
15. The Bouncing Souls - Streetlight Serenade (To No One) (How I Spent My Summer Vacation)

Playlist for March 18th, 2010

I cannot recommend the All Citizen's Centre as a venue enough. I've been there a few times now, each well worth the drive. An intimate and cozy little place run by one of the nicest guys in Canada.

We were there to see the Burning Hell and Wax Mannequin, and the show was excellent. CBC Radio 3's Vish Khanna was on tour with them providing percussion. Check out All Citizen's upcoming shows calendar and make it out to one of them!

1. Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today (All We Could Do Was Sing)
2. Woodpidgeon* - My Denial In Argyle (Die Stadt Muzikanten)
3. Slow Down Molasses* - I'm An Old Believer (I'm An Old Believer)
4. The Wrens - Faster Gun (The Meadowland)
5. The Hold Steady - Massive Night (Boys and Girls in America)
6. Eamon Mcgrath* - Desperation, Alberta (13 Songs of Whiskey and Light)
7. Surfer Blood - Swim (Astro Coast)
8. Born Ruffians* - Sole Brother (Say It)
9. Hexes and Ohs* - This and Other Distances (Goodbye Friend, Welcome Lover)
10. Sigur Ros - Hjomalind (Hvarf/Heim)
11. Wax Mannequin* - Volcano God (And Black Blood)
12. Shuyler Jansen* - Don't Ask Why (Today's Remains)

This week's homework: get out to Bruno for a concert.

A trip to Toronto.

I was in Toronto last week! This show is sort of an overview of that, surrounded by a bunch of songs that are neat.

I had a delicious and quite filling "How To Fight Loneliness" sandwich at a Wilco themed sandwich shop. Ingredients: turkey, apple slices, bacon.

Vinyl shopping: Burl Ives' Women, Neil Young's Comes a Time, and a Fats Domino 7".

1. Wilco - How to Fight Loneliness (Summerteeth)
2. Dan Mangan* - Basket (Nice, Nice, Very Nice)
3. Local Natives - Stranger Things (Gorilla Manor)
4. Ghostkeeper* - Tea and Cree Talking (Ghostkeeper)
5. Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You're Gone (Blood on the Tracks)
6. Tom Waits - All the World was Green (Blood Money)
7. Neil Young* - Human Highway (Comes a Time)
8. Burl Ives - The Chivalrous Shark and the Woman (Women)
9. Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill (7")
10. The Fjords* - Mine (The Fjords)
11. Brasstronaut* - Lo Hi Hopes (Mt. Chamaera)
12. Boats* - Sunshine on the Muffin District ("Cannonballs, Cannonballs")

Toronto actually has a muffin district! Well, of sorts. Three cupcake shops all call a section of Queen East their home.

I also saw Zeus play an instore. My view:

It sounded pretty good, at least. I wonder how many things were stolen...

Spring REDUX

Included some holdover requests from last week's spring show as well as some other songs that aren't related to that at all.

1. Broken Social Scene* - 7/4 Shoreline (Broken Social Scene)
2. Yeasayer - I Remember (Odd Blood)
3. Super Furry Animals - Inaugural Tram (Dark Days/Light Years)
4. Elliott Brood* - T-Bill (Mountain Meadow)
5. Old Man Luedecke* - At the Airport (Hinterland)
6. Greg Macpherson* - Travelling Style (Mr. Invitation)
7. Brian Borcherdt* - Connected/Disconnected (Torches)
8. Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You (The Winter of Mixed Drinks)
9. The Radio Dept. -
10. Kate Maki* - In Comes the Light (Two Song Wedding)
11. The Acorn* - Spring Thaw (Tin Cup)
12. The Ghost is Dancing* - Greatlakescape (The Darkest Spark)

Spring

The weather was incredible on the 25th, so I dedicated the show to making everyone's collective will keep it that way. These are some spring songs.

* = Canadian

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1. Said the Whale* - BC Orienteering (Islands Disappear)
2. Yukon Blonde* - Kumiko Song (Yukon Blonde)
3. The Pinecones* - M'Marigold (Sage)
4. Japandroids* - Young Hearts Spark Fire (Post-Nothing)
5. Lifetime - It's Not Funny Anymore (Hello Bastards)
6. We Are Wolves* - Palamo (Invisible Violence)
7. Bruce Springfield - Buffalo Arrows (Retrospective)
8. Polymaths* - Lumberjacks (So Long, Castle Road)
9. The Zombies - Care of Cell 44 (Odyssey and Oracle)
10. Jason Collett* - I'll Bring the Sun (Idols of Exile)
11. Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From (Right Back Where We Started From)
12. A Gentle Forest* - Broken Bicycle (Our Phenomenal First Flight)
13. Eric's Trip* - Spring (Love Tara)

HOMEWORK: think warm thoughts. Together, we can make spring happen.

Playlist for February 18th, 2010

A selection of songs that I have been enjoying quite a bit recently.

* = Canadian

1. Postdata* - Paranoid Clusters (Postdata)
2. American Analog Set - Know By Heart (Know By Heart)
3. Octoberman* - Breath of Sunshine (Run From Safety)
4. Deer Tick - These Old Shoes (War Elephant)
5. Gravity Wave* - The Great One (Gambol)
6. Clues* - Cave Mouth (Clues)
7. WOMEN* - Group Transport Hall (WOMEN)
8. Woodhands* - P'issin
9. Sleepless Nights* - You Don't Anymore (The Phone Booth Outside the Video Store)
10. Young Galaxy* - Destroyer (Invisible Republic)
11. Yeasayer - Madder Red (Odd Blood)
12. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Baker Shop Blues (Black Snake Moan)
13. Museum Pieces* - Lewis and Clark (Philidelphia)
14. Shugo Tokumaru - Rum Hee (Rum Hee)

HOMEWORK: a) go listen to that entire Postdata album (it's amazing) and b) go read all of the Achewood comic strips, starting here. (This will likely take you more than a week, but that's okay.) Report back here when you are finished/feel like you have grown as a person.

"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."

This show was all about the wee country of Scotland (wee geographically, not in heart, or... other areas, according to rumour.) It turns out they've mostly perfected strongly emotional rock and roll with an underlying melody catchy enough to keep you from getting too sad.

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1. Broken Records - Thoughts On A Picture (In A Paper, January 2009) (Until the Earth Begins to Part)
2. De Rosa - Flight Recorder (Prevention)
3. The Twilight Sad - Made to Disappear (Forget the Night Ahead)
4. Arab Strap - Dream Sequence (The Last Romance)
5. My Latest Novel - Pretty in a Panic (Wolves)
6. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper (The Midnight Organ Fight)
7. Copy Haho - This Retro Decade (Bred For Skills & Magic)
8. Belle and Sebastien - Dog on Wheels (Push Barman to Open Old Wounds)
9. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Roll Up Your Sleeves (These Four Walls)
10. The Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered (Will Anything Happen)
11. The Vaselines - Rory Rides Me Raw (Enter the Vaselines)
12. Teenage Fanclub - What You Do To Me (Bandwagonesque)

This week's homework was to go listen to some Mogwai. Here's the trip-tacular track "The Sun Smells Too Loud" from their latest album"The Hawk is Howling" to get you started (or restarted). I, for one, have been away from these guys for far too long. (Unnecessary note: the people in the video are not Mogwai.)

Females!

Brett challenged me to an all-female fronted band radio show. He even came in and cohosted with me for it- what a swell guy. The show was two hours, marking the third edition of "When Insects Kill Leonard Cohen"!

* denotes Canadian

1. Feist* - Gatekeeper (Let it Die)
2. One Hundred Dollars* - My Father's House (My Father's House)
3. The Gruff* - Country Lovin (Hole in My Jeans)
4. The Heartstrings* - Amelia Earhart (In a Land Far Away That is True)
5. You Say Party! We Say Die!* - Dark Days - XXXX
6. Thunderheist* - Sweet 16 (Sweet 16)
7. A Gentle Forest* - No One Thought to Blow Up The Bridge (Our Phenomenal First Flight)
8. Basia Bulat* - Heart of My Own (Heart of My Own)
9. Jenn Grant* - Blue Mountains (Echoes)
10. Julie Doiron* - Tailer (I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day)
11. Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds (Gregory and the Hawk)
12. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Le Chat du Cafe (IRM)
13. Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack (Leader of the Pack)
14. Sleater Kinney - Turn it On (Dig Me Out)
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With the Night (Date With the Night)
16. Plumtree* - Open the Window (Mass Teen Fainting)
17. Jeanette Stewart* - Dark Forces (A Sides)
18. The Pack A.D.* - Making Gestures (Funeral Mixtape)
19. Ohbijou* - Make it Gold (Beacons)
20. Ghost Trees* - Sounds of the City (Feathers EP)
21. Tricot Machine* - L'Ours (Tricot Machine)
22. Tessa Kautzman* - Someone Like You (Always Going Home)
23. Candi Staton - I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Candi Staton)
24. Bella* - Can She Play Guitar (Pretty Mess)
25. Laura Barrett* - Gamma Ray (Seven Year Itch)
26. Ghost Bees* - Vampires of the East Coast (Tasseomancy)
27. Deerhoof - O'malley, Former Underdog (The Runner's Four)

Song linking

This show was a game that I played with everyone I'm friends with on facebook. I picked the first song, then someone picked the next song based on the last letter of the last song's title, etc. All of the songs are Canadian.

1. (Dana) Woodpigeon - Empty-Hall-Sing-Along (Die Stadt Muzikanten)
2. (Trista) Mother Mother - Ghosting (O My Heart)
3. (Danny) Neil Young - Goin' Back (Comes A Time)
4. (Travis) Broken Social Scene - K.C. Accidental (You Forgot it in People)
5. (Kara) Hey Ocean! - Eskimo Kisses (Stop Looking Like Music)
6. (Josh) Our Lady Peace - Stealing Babies (Happiness Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch)
7. (Sana) Ohbijou - St. Francis (Swift Feet For Troubling Times)
8. (Brett) The Rural Alberta Advantage - Sleep All Day (Hometowns)
9. (Brian) Constantines - You Are A Conductor (Tournament of Hearts)
10. (Samantha) Born Ruffians - Red Elephant (Red, Yellow, and Blue)
11. (Bitsy) The Danks - Treaty Connector (Are you afraid of the Danks?)
12. (Charles) The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour (Reunion Tour)

That was all I could fit in the show, but more people joined in on the game. The rest of the list:
13. (Brandon) - Chad Vangaalen - Red Hot Drops (Skelliconnection)
14. (Will) Pearson - Streetlight (Clear Thinking on Mixed Feelings)
15. (Eric) David Usher - Too Close To The Sun
16. (Jesse) Joey K. Lorer - Noticing You

Ukuleles!

Oh yeah, the show has a blog. New year's resolution - keep up with this a bit better.

I've been filling in a lot more lately too, mostly on the Afternoon Buzz on Mondays. Interviews are pretty fun.

* denotes Canadian

(1 through 5 and 8 and 9 are ukulele songs)

1. Elliott Brood* - The Valley Town (Mountain Meadows)
2. Dent May and his Magnificent Ukulele - You Can't Force a Dance Party (The Goodfeeling Music of)
3. Jens Lekman - Your Arms Around Me (live)
4. Said the Whale* - The Real of It (Howe Sounds)
5. The Burning Hell* - Last Will & Testament (Tick Tock)
6. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (White Blood Cells)
7. Woodpigeon* - 7th Fret Over Andres (Treasury Library Canada)
8. Basia Bulat* - Before I Knew (Oh My Darling)
9. Beirut - Postcards From Italy (The Gulag Orkestar)
10. Young Galaxy* - Outside the City (Young Galaxy)
11. Fruit Bats - Beautiful Morning Light (The Ruminant Band)
12. The Bicycles* - I Will Appear For You (The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly)
13. The Bees - One Glass of Water (Free as a Bee)
14. Del Barber* - The Party Song (Where the City Ends)
15. The Gruff* - I Know My Mind (Hole in my Jeans)

Playlist for December 31, 2009

In this episode I put forward the idea that Broken Social Scene deserves the title "Canadian Band of the Decade" and that Radiohead is the "Band of the Decade".

Discuss?

1. Rah Rah* - My Guarantee (Going Steady)
2. The Arcade Fire* - Neighbourhood # 1 (Tunnels) (Funeral)
3. Woodhands* - I Wasn't Made For Fighting (Heart Attack)
4. Joel Plaskett Emergency* - Work Out Fine (Truthfully Truthfully)
5. Wilco - Kamera (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
6. The Constantines* - Lizaveta (Tournament of Hearts)
7. The Rural Alberta Advantage* - Don't Haunt This Place (Hometowns)
8. Maybe Smith* - Open War (Animals and Architects)
9. Soso* - Company of Chairs (Tinfoil on the Window)
10. The Deep Dark Woods* - How Can I Try? (Winter Hours)
11. Ride Til Dawn* - The Golden Years (Hearts of the World's Forgotten)
12. Carbon Dating Service* - Fossils (Reliquiea)
13. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize? (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)
14. Beck - Rental Car (Guero)
15. The White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button (Elevator)
16. Sloan* - Another Way I Could Do It (Never Hear the End Of It)
17. Broken Social Scene* - Cause = Time (You Forgot it in People)
18. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper (The Midnight Organ Fight)
19. Wintersleep* - Dead Letter and the Infinite Yes (Welcome to the Night Sky)
20. Ryan Adams - Starting to Hurt (Demolition)
21. Immaculate Machine* - Invention 77 (Ones and Zeroes)
22. Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (Kid A)
23. Radiohead - You and Whose Army (Amnesiac)
24. Radiohead - Sit Down, Stand Up (Hail to the Thief)
25. Radiohead - Bodysnatchers (In Rainbows)

Playlist for December 11, 2009

A scottish music set followed by an all Canadian "s bands" set.

1. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Moving Clocks Run Slow (These Four Walls)
2. The Twilight Sad - Interrupted (Forget the Night Ahead)
3. Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend (Ten Years of Tears)
4. Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land (Swim Until You Can't See Land EP)
5. Basia Bulat* - Before I Knew (Oh My Darling)
6. The Sheepdogs* - Creeps (Big Stand)
7. Sunset Rubdown* - You Go On Ahead (Dragonslayer)
8. Shotgun Jimmie* - Duet (The Onlys)
9. The Sadies* - Anna Leigh (New Seasons)
10. Smothered in Hugs* - Blank Test (The Healing Power of Injury)
11. Said the Whale* - Black Days in December (Islands Disappear)
12. Snailhouse* - Dollar Signs (Lies on the Prize)